Suppose That a Professor Asks the Students in Her Class

question 54

Multiple Choice

Suppose that a professor asks the students in her class to say their names out loud (one at a time) on the first day of class. Then she asks them to write down as many of their classmates' names as they can recall. Then she constructs a graph that shows "Number of correct responses" on the Y-axis and "Serial position of the name" on the X-axis. The shape of the graph

• A) will be a straight line, with the greatest accuracy on the first items.
• B) will be a straight line, with the greatest accuracy on the last items.
• C) will be an upside-down U-shaped line, with the greatest accuracy on the middle items.
• D) will be a U-shaped line, with the greatest accuracy on the first and last items.

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